people who are still here are weird af

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Person, noun. per'sn. Latin persona; said to be compounded of per, through or by, and sonus, sound; a Latin word signifying primarily a mask used by actors on the stage.

Webster's Dictionary, 1828.

Caught a nice block height tonight.

What’s a cool smaller thing that I would want for Christmas that I should know about? 😆

⚡️💬 READ - Remember when phones didn’t exist in our childhoods?

You left the house and actually vanished — no trace, no ping, no silent listener in your pocket.

Then mobiles came… and for one golden era they still respected us.

Two fingers on the back, battery out, click.

True black screen. True silence.

The device was dead because WE killed it. That tiny snap was the last pure “off switch” humanity ever had.

Then they soldered the batteries in. No warning. No vote.

They told us it was for “sleeker design” and longer battery life.

And overnight, “power off” became theatre.

Today we hand these permanently awake, permanently connected bricks to our children and say “just turn it off” — while every expert knows the microphone, camera, and baseband chip can still be remotely woken even when the screen is black.

It’s not a theory. It’s in the patents, the FBI documents, and leaked carrier slides. Your phone can be told to listen when you believe it’s dead. We didn’t lose thinness. We lost the final guarantee that when we say “stop,” it actually stops.

I miss that click like oxygen.

If you ever pulled a battery and felt the world go truly go quiet, name your phone below.

Mine was the Nokia 3310.

It obeyed me.

Today’s phones don’t.

We used to wrap code at 80 columns to make things easier to read on a terminal. Graphic text editors and large monitors eliminated the need for it.

But now we need to wrap at 47 to make code readable in phones, which is where most people will be able to read it.

The people who think we should manipulate the money to "incentivize consumption" have such a bonkers and contradictory duality of ideas as to how people behave that I can't wrap my head around it.

News Flash! You will NEVER need to encourage people to consume stuff, this is the whole purpose of everything and a fundamental axiom of being alive. Nobody wants to live like a pauper for no reason.

The ONLY thing you incentivize by doing this, is WASTE

Finish the sentence:

Privacy is .....

Nostr's best use will not be as a Twitter clone. It's already been a few years, and it's really only for a select group of miscreants and the bit-curious. Just the concept of using public and private keys instead of passwords is enough to keep away 99 percent of people.

How many restaurants know you by name?

Personalized web of trust (each user customizes the equation that produces the results) allows you to fine tune the scores according to what you like. For instance, I could tweak the algo to score accounts that post more technical stuff higher. Or reduce the score of anyone that posts about politics. It's not just follows or follows. Posts by the same person can be a 10 and a 0, one after another.

Now available on iOS 😎

The fact that we all contribute, maintain, run, and protect the #Bitcoin network together, and have done so successfully for over 16 years without anyone "in charge," is f*ckng incredible when you really stop to think about it.

No one is directing any of this. It's pure alignment of incentives through a brilliant economic protocol.

⚡️💬 NEW - Microsoft's AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, has shared his opinion after recent online pushback from users frustrated with Copilot and AI on Windows:

"The fact that people are unimpressed... is mind-blowing to me."

⚡️🌍🎮 NEW - Today is World Video Game Day.

What do you think is the BEST video game in history?

Can AI recreate Winamp on a modern language?

got that one wrong

but im enjoying the cheap fees